They are the ones that will go into the mills and shops of the country at a subminimum wage. I am ashamed to serve in a body that would consider that as a legitimate and valid point to veto this bill. I served with some great men in my time and some great men in this House. but I cannot conceive in my mind how any of you. no matter where you come form. what district you come from. or what your conditions of life may be. how you can ask this Congress to bring forth a bill that will put youth back into the dim. dark ages of the slave shop and the runawaybynightchildlabor places. where there are millions of our young sons and daughters of the immigrants that made this country what it Is and the blacks that came up from the South into the lofts in the textile industry dying from consumption before they were 40 years of age. into the coal mines at the age of 7. like I went myself. A former Republican Governor of Pennsylvania was elected because it was in those days when labor was prominent and strong and he was a Republican. He started to work in the coal fields in anthracite at the age of 5. and he worked his heart out as Governor to put Pennsylvanias first antichildlabor law on the law books.
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